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Eili Ervelä-Myréen 15 May 2008. NORFACE: New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe - a Strategy for Social Science 2004-2009. Strategic objectives.
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Eili Ervelä-Myréen 15 May 2008
NORFACE: New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe - a Strategy for Social Science 2004-2009 Strategic objectives • the development of a durable partnership in research funding policy and practice between the partner organisations • increasing co-operation between national programmes and developing a transnational research programme between the partner organisations 13 partners: FI, NO, SE, UK, DK, IS, IE, DE, EE, PT, NL, SI, AT; One associate partner: CA
NORFACE ERA-NET Research funding activities • Seminar series (720.000 €)2005: Security Challenges; Science Policy and Science in Society2006: Immigration and Demographic Challenges in Europe; Social Aspects of Language Diversity2007: Politics and Evidence Based Knowledge; Transforming Europe – the Consequences of Globalisation • Pilot programme - 2006(5,4 million €)Re-emergence of religion as a Social Force in Europe? • Pilot on capacity building – 2007 • Transnational programme – 2008(23 million €) • Migration
NORFACE ERA-NET Strategic activities • Comparative analysis of partner organisation • Data and research infrastructures • Participation of ethnic minorities in social sciences • The impact of language to international research co-operation • Opening up to transnational participation • Design of new transnational funding instruments
NORFACE ERA-NET Best practice studies • Evaluation and peer review of research • Promotion of gender equality in research • Programme development and management • Priority setting and development of new initiatives • User engagement
NORFACE ERA-NET Planning criteria • “Common pot” funding model enables the funding of the best projects (excellence) • Common peer review • “Researcher friendly” and transparent • “One stop shop” for researchers • Same rules apply to all projects – terms and conditions of grants, reporting and monitoring • The projects are ‘real’ joint projects, not separate national projects
NORFACE ERA-NET NORFACE Programme - theme planning • NORFACE partner countries invited to send in suggestions for themes • Three clusters of themes emerged • Two themes ‘migration’ and ‘conflict’ were chosen for further development • Two expert groups, one for each theme, were nominated • On the basis of the expert groups’ reports Migration was chosen as the theme for the programme